Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-01
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Wool Men and Citizens Generally Favor
the Establishment OF Wool Securing
Works at Fort Worth.
xyhat 4 Leading Stookman Says About
Union stock Yards at Fort Worth,
On the Trail.

Union STOCK Yards at Il OrJ w Or(n,
On the Trail.
Eighty carloads Of cattle were handled
1t Fort Worth yesterday.
Several small lots OF horses were SO Id
here yesterday at good figures,
san Angelo has received u2 to this date
over $50, 600 pounds Of WOOL.
some forty head OF fine sheep were
sold to local butchers yesterday.
lobe Odem, Il stockman well known II
FJ.t Worth, was ia the city yesterday.
!. T. Word mas returned from his
ranch. He oorrobor2tes ali the good re-
ports in regard 20 cattle.
4 majority of the cattlemens who have
been ia Fort Worth during the last two
orthree days say oeef cattle viii be ready
Tor market by the goth to the 25th Of
June, and in some cases by June 10.
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Colonel ". T. Waggoner of Decatur,
one Of the most prominent stockmen in
mis- section, was in Fort Worth yester-
dav, and reports cattle doing well, grass
fac. water plentiful, and that by June %
5eeYes will be ready to ship.
Thorp Andrews, agent of the Bureau
Of Animal Industry, is back from Vernon,
and says cattle are being driven over the
trail in large numbers. Slockmen in
that section are happy, with the excetion,
hat they would like to see prices better.
Captain Burk Burnett, one of the most
solid stockmen Of Texas, who makes his
home and headquarters at Fort Worth,
was questioned in regard TO large union
syOCkyards ST this city, and said: ~ am
heartily in favor Of the move. The stock
Yards should be established here on a
.srze scale. Fort Worth has been, is,
g1i should continue 30 be the stock
market OF Texas. This city is on the
dividing line between Kansas and the Rio
Glande, end between the feeding belt and
Inc grazing country. I believe in build
ing yards partly sheltered and partly
opened, tie shelter for winter
sn5 the open yards for
other seasons. We need open
Yards that the sun may reach them and
dry the mud, Tor nay experience is that
no mstrer now much gravel you put
down or Row we'll paved the yards are,
they Will Get muddy Stock yards will
paw here, and will make Fort Worth what
she should be in the live stock world.
TGis is = great h1y country, and the cattle
can be fed here at minimum cost. There
is an abundance Ct millet, Johnson grass
aaG alfalfa being raised about Fort Worth,
and stock yards would furnish market
for it, and st the same time it can be
bought st very reasonable figures.
Put me down for the yards
st Fort Worth every time, and l would
ike TO see them established at once"
The wool securing project Is being
generally discussed aud meets with favor
from all Colonel J. T Hickey, for a
long time an extensive dealer in wool,
WHO has mad WidS experience IN the
business, says our artaSisn Wsler has the
securing qualities, aud the saving TO the
grower ia having his wool secured before
being shipped is considerable, If scour-
irg works sTe put in here of sufficient ca
pacity lie says j.: viii make Fort Worth the
wool market OF the state. He believes
also that lde wool securing works will
aLt COu@ittl AIRY IL NIIHSlI8 q WOODEN
mill Fort Worth should, ne says, manu-
fsCture the native WOOL iuto clotn pecu-
Gar o this section and supply the people
of the great Panhandle with their Toolen
goods
Mr.. Shropshire, dealer In wool, who
is thoroughly COnversant with the bust
mess, says srtesisn water IS very soft,
softer than rain water, and will readily
cut the dirt and grease from wool. He,
too, says the establishment Of securing
works will make Fort Worth q crest
southwestern wool market. He Is warmly
IN favor of the move.
Mr., /. IL Stein s9ys q gentleman VINO |
lives at Baird was here some time ago !
and told him that he saw more money II |
securing wool than anything else in
Texas, and made preliminary arrange |
ments with Mr.. Stein for use of water |
from his artesian well and ground near
his slaughter house. This gentleman |
was also interested in a patent t. III |
wool from shesrlinge, and has gone north |
to interest parties in MS patent. AIr
Stein expects 10 near from him again.
The GAZETTE has sent to Walpole, Mass,
FOR fCI. Information ia regard 10 tho
securing business; and in the meantime
suaEea.s tllt Car local wool men
mlYe l. she matter. Several
citizens have expressed a willingness
10 TAX; stock iC the enterprise If com
psuy is formed